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And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.
It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.
School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.
Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.
There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.
A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL
Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.
It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.
I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.
Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.
The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.
We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.